“Why Some People Prefer Pickle Juice: The Research of Dr. Richard P. Lifton,” Peter M. Gayed, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, vol. 80, no. 4, December 2007, pp. 159–63. The author, at Yale University School of Medicine, begins:
Dr. Richard Lifton has seen patients who crave nothing more than pickle juice.
(That’s an excerpt from the article “Improbable Research Review,” Published in AIR 15:3.)